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How to Patent a Brand Name?

How to Patent a Brand Name?

If you’re on this page, you can’t just land here from the space! You must have googled “how to patent a brand name” right?

Well yeah so basically I already know couple things about you. Let’s start with saying that, I know that you’ve invested hundreds if not thousands of your minutes on zeroing in on a really brandable, awesome brand name for yourselves.

And I also know that you aren’t going to let it be just grabbed by someone else, afterall you’ve invested your time on it, haven’t you?

Then this piece is exactly for you! By the end of this piece you’ll have a solid idea about How to Trademark Your Brand Name.

Well basically because these are popular, famous names, and even though they aren’t trademarked, we can’t use these without the real person’s permissions.

So trademarking is similar, when you trademark something, no one else can use any part of the trademark without your permission.

Let’s have a look at what you can patent/Trademark/copyright in India:-

Letter

Word

Number

Smell

Logo

Phrase, ,

Graphic, ,

Sound Mark

or even a Combination of Colors

So yeah once you trademark any of these, they’re yours, and only yours. No one else has the permission to use them, simple as that.

What is the Difference Between a Patent, Trademark and a Copyright:-

Although these terms are often uses for one another, they aren’t exactly the same thing. On the legal dictionary they mean something else, and it’s beneficial for you to understand the difference.

All of them indicate “Protected, Registered Properties/Assets”.

Yeah correct!

But the catch is that, Copyright is used for “intellectual creations”! Let’s say a photograph you’ve snapped, a painting you’ve made, A music you’ve produced, A book you’ve written, or a quote.

While, Trademark is used for more “solid” kind of things. Let’s say a logo (it can also be copyrighted!), a specific colour combination or something like that. Technically something that is linked with a company, brand.

A trademark is often used for something “other” than the object being trademarked. For eg. the four circles of audi are trademarked.

Now the object trademarked are the “four circles”, but they actually are associated with the company “Audi”, right? Similarly intel’s introductory music is trademarked, now the “music” is what’s actually trademarked, but it’s trademarked for Intel.

So I hope the difference between a Copyright and a Trademark is clear, right?

Now let’s move forward to learn how to trademark business name, or how to copyright a business name.

How to Patent a Brand Name?

We need to fill couple forms! The TM-1 Brand Registration form! The good news is, it can be filled either offline, on paper (which is a slower process!) and the other where you can fill it Online!

Now you’d be taken to the login page! You’ve got to login here, if you have an account. If you don’t, in that case just signup.

Once the signup /Login process is completed, you should see a screen like the below screenshot.

Now click on New Applications and the below screen would come up.

Click on “see class details” and then find out the class that would suit you, and fill it in the class field, and then click submit. Once you click submit you’d get the following message:-

Now close the popup, and you’d get the drafts of the application, click on the Edit button.

Fill all the details required. The name/ Type of registration and everything else.

Once that’s done, you’ll be taken to the final page where you need to make a payment of around 3500INR. It’s a one-time free! (And trust me, if you hire an attorney or lawyer, they won’t do this under 20-30,000INR for you!) So just click on make payment.

You’ll be redirected to your Bank portal to make the payment. If the payment is successful, you’ll get the payment receipt! (Note that this isn’t the application receipt, it’s just a payment proof!)

Now there’s a 2 working day time-frame which the govt. requires to verify the payment and the application. Once that’s done, go to your Payment history tab, and there you’ll get your:-

Receipt Number

Permanent Application Number.

And then you can generate the Application.

Done! You’ve your application, if all goes well you’ll receive a notification of your successful application of trademarking your brand!

Note that you’ve just made the “application”, you aren’t a Trademark yet, there’s around 60-90days of time-frame where your application would be made public for any objections, and only after no objections arise, can you be granted the trademark!

Final Words:-

So that was all I had on how to copyright a business name, or let’s say how to trademark a name question.

Trust me, this was one of the hardest articles I’ve ever written in my history, so I really do hope it solved your questions regarding How to Patent a Brand name, right?

If it did, just leave a feedback in the comments, this article took over 2 hours of my time, a comment from you will only take 20 seconds, right?

Evan Derek is the Founder and Chief SEO Analyst @ VebbLabbs. Specialising in Affiliate Marketing and helping newcomers to make it a stable profession in the online world, he boasts 6+ years of experience in the industry. 19 year has he spent on this planet successfully, and plans on spending atleast 50more !

How to Use the Undo and Redo Commands?

I cannot even recount that how many times the undo and redo shortcuts have saved my life. These are one hell of a gem and have been a life savior, at least for me. Since you have landed here then you might be interested to know how to use the undo and redo commands, right.

So, this article will tell you how to use the undo and redo commands along with step by step guide.

So, without wasting any time further, let’s dive deep into this and explore. So, let’s get started:

How to undo and redo?

Okay, you want to take a step back or two, you can easily do that using an undo command. But the key point to take a note is that this is entirely controlled by the software on which you are trying to apply the undo commands. Some of them allow multiple undo’s while some of them allow a single one. For example, MS paint allows a single undo while in Adobe Illustrator you can perform multiple undo operations.

So, in this section, we will see how to undo and redo in some of the major softwares.

We will first go to MS office. How to undo and redo in MS office? So, let’s get started:

Step #1: First of all, you are required to open MS Word on your system. We are taking MS Word for illustration purposes; you can go with any of its products. Once you have opened MS Word, then you now need to move on to the next steps for further proceedings.

Step #2: Perform any action to an existing Word document or a blank document. After that, if you wish to undo your operation then press “CTRL + z.” This will revert your changes.

Additionally, if you want to redo an action then you are required to press “CTRL + y.” This way you can quickly perform the redo operation in Word.

Alternatively, in previous versions of MS Office, you may find the edit option from which you can also perform the same task by clicking on the undo and redo options.

Let’s see how it can be done in MS paint.

Step #1: First of all, you will have to launch MS Paint on your system. Once you have done that, open the desired image file, or you can even create something of your own.

Step #2: Oh, you made a mistake and wanted to undo the action. Press “CTRL + Z” to get back a step back. If you want the redo the step then just press “CTRL + Y” to get the needful results.

Moving on, we will see how to redo and undo in Adobe Photoshop. So, let’s get started:

Step #1: Open Adobe Photoshop on your system. Once launched, you are now required to open any existing project on which you want to perform these actions.

Step #2: Now, if you want to undo or redo your steps, you have two options, either you can go with the usual “CTRL + Z” keyboard shortcut which will get you exactly one step back, or you can go to edit option and then select the appropriate option from there.

Alternatively, to undo your steps, you can also go to the history section of Photoshop from where you can also see what steps you have gone through till now. To go to history, you need to click on the Window option from the top navigation menu and the locate the history option. Once found, you need to click on it. This may open a history panel from the right side from where you have a look at your steps.

Now, if you wish you can select the desired steps that you want to undo and then delete them by clicking on the dustbin like icon as shown. This will produce the same output as the undo command, but the difference is that you can revert as many steps as available.

To say the least, CTRL + Z and CTRL + Y are the undo and redo global actions for any Windows program. So, what if we want to perform the redo and undo operations on a Mac? If you are thinking about the same, then the following section is a must visit for you.

In Mac operating system, the alternative for CTRL + Z is “Command + Z” and for the redo operation the alternative is “Command + Shift + Z.” The Command key in Mac is equivalent to the CTRL command in Windows.

Also take a note that not every action your perform can be redone and undone. So, if these keys don’t work in some cases, then you might have performed those actions.

[Additional Information]: Some useful keyboard shortcuts.

CTRL + SHIFT+ESC: Opens Windows Task Manager

ALT + TAB: Switch to another running program

ALT + SPACE: Displays the foreground window’s system menu.

ALT + F4: Closes the current window

SHIFT+DELETE: Delete item permanently without placing it into the recycle bin

CTRL + ALT + DEL: Referred to as “Three finger salute” often used to interrupt a function. It provides a bunch of options like task manager, log off and others.

So, this was all about how to undo/redo edits? We hope that this article must have added unique value to your knowledge base.

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How to Speed Up Windows 7 Performance

No matter how fast your new computers might be, they all seem to get slower over time. Because, there is a new kind of excitement to play with new computer and to install lots of software’s on it. The first program which we install on our new computers is anti-spyware and antivirus tools, to stay from viruses. I know, it’s an essential program but what we actually do, we install more than one antivirus program. Next, we download lots of unrecognized junk softwares from the internet. Obviously, your new computers gradually decrease the performance and one day when you are trying to open a program or file then it takes more time to open up.

So, Whatever the cause, there are lots of ways to speed up Windows 7 performance and make your PC work better without upgrading your hardware. Here are something that will help you in installing Windows 7 custom themes.

Tips to Speed Up Windows 7 Performance

Turn Transparency Off

The glass transparency uses more resources of a PC from the Aero feature, you can disable by following simple steps.

Step 1: Go to personalize. (Right Click on desktop > Personalize)

Step 2: Click on the Window Color icon at the bottom of window.

Step 3: Uncheck the box to disable transparency.

Step 4: Click on save changes.

This will save some resources from being utilized and Speed Up Windows 7 Performance.

Turn on only required Visual Effects

You have to turn on only those visual effects that are essential and required by you. You can optimize how menus and windows appear by following simple steps.

This will surely optimize the usage of cache memory and Speed Up Windows 7 Performance.

Turn off unnecessary Windows Features

Windows 7 comes with lots of features and we all know that we are not using all the features of it so it also allows us to turn on or off Windows features as per our requirement. That will also speed up the startup process for windows 7. For that, just follow the below simple steps.

Step 1: Open the Start Menu, type Windows Features in the search box, and press Enter.

Step 2: Open up “Turn Windows Features On or Off” icon. In that, if you want to turn on any features then tick the check box otherwise untick the check box to disable the features.

Step 3: After turning on or off, you will have to restart your PC. That’s it.

Helps in reducing unnecessary usage of CPU and Speed Up Windows 7 Performance.

Step 2: Click on the boot tab > Select your OS (Ex: I nave Windows 7). Then, below you will see many options from that check the box of “No GUI boot” and “Make all boot settings permanent” > Click Ok. I will ask for confirmation click yes and restart.

So, all these are the important tips to Speed Up Windows 7 Performance. If you have any problem or query regarding this then you can surely put your comments below and we will connect with you as soon as possible! Happy Tweaking 😀

How to Create Personalized Start Button for Windows 8?

Its a quite a few months since the Windows 8 has launched. If you are among those people who love to have a Start button still in windows 8, then here we are providing you a classic tip “How to Create Personalized Start Button for Windows 8?” Yes you have certainly came across several apps, softwares and extensions. But this is a complete different new dimension. Protecting your computer is also crucial. See 3 best antiviruses for Windows 8 that will definitely going to protect your computer from harmful virus.

The CLSID

While you won’t have to go traipsing around the registry in order to implement this technique – I already did that – you may be curious as to where the CLSID came from. Essentially, a CLSID key is a part of the registry that contains code that provides access to specific system objects in the operating system, such as system folders. The CLSID keys can be found in two places in the Registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClassesCLSID and HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID.

Now, under normal circumstances, you would never need to use a CLSID because it is specifically designed to be used by developers and the operating system. In fact, a CLSID is a 128 bit Hexadecimal number enclosed in braces, so it’s not very user friendly.

In any case, the CLSID that provides access to the Apps screen is

{2559a1f8-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}

The shortcut

To use the CLSID to launch the Apps screen, you’ll use the Shell command. In order to launch a Shell command from a shortcut, you need to use the explorer.exe command. As such, the shortcut to launch the Apps screen consists of the following command line. (Take note that there are three colons between the word shell and the left brace. Also keep in mind that there is only one space in the whole command line between the .exe file extension and the word shell.)

explorer.exe shell:::{2559a1f8-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}

To create the shortcut, just open the Documents folder, right-click on the background, and choose the New | Shortcut command. When you see the first screen in the Create Shortcut wizard, type the shortcut in the text box.

When you see the second screen in the Create Shortcut wizard, type a short name for your shortcut.To complete the wizard, just click Finish. As soon as you see the shortcut icon, right click on it and select the Properties command.

When you see the Properties dialog box, click the Change Icon button to open the Change Icon dialog box. By default the Change Icon dialog box displays the icons from the explorer.exe file. As you can see, none of the available icons are very exciting. However, if you click the Browse button, you can search for other files that contain icons.

Once your custom Start button appears on the taskbar, drag it all the way to the left side of the taskbar. So here you are with what you want to have. So go on and enjoy “Windowing”!

How to use BitLocker to Encrypt your Files

Locker means a safe place where you can put your personal or important things hiding from others. We all have some things which we don’t want to share with others same as in the computer you have any important data that you want to hide from the outside world. For that, there are many software available over the web and as well as well-known by you so no need to describe it.

But if you want to lock your Hard Drive partitions without any software then? In that case, Microsoft has provided one wonderful tool known as “BitLocker” in Windows Vista, 7 and 8 for encrypting your entire Hard Drive partitions. Using BitLocker you can lock any volume on the computer even the one you boot from. But a question arises in your mind that How to use it, right? So, I will show you two different modes to use BitLocker on your computer. If you wanted to Defrag the Hard Drive, you should see that.

1. “How to use BitLocker on a normal/data volume”

2. “How to use BitLocker on Boot volume”

Let’s see the first mode:

1. How to use BitLocker on a normal/data volume?

A simple way to enable BitLocker – right click on any volume and select “Turn BitLocker on” to start the locking process. After clicking a window will pop-up (as shown in the figure below) asking to enter a password to use with the drive – you will also ask to say a copy of the recovery key somewhere at safe place and then it will begin encrypting your drive.

By this method you can lock all the drives on your computer except “C:/ drive” or “Boot partition”.

Now, the second mode:

2. How to use BitLocker on Boot volume

Yes, it is true that you can encrypt the main operating system drive, but this has some special requirements since the drive has to be unlocked before boot. First of all this requires that Windows has a seperate boot partition that isn’t encrypted; in case if you don’t have then create a separate boot partition. The second requirement is that your system include a TPM (Trusted Platform Module).

If you try to encrypt your boot volume without satisfying the above to requirement then it will give an error as shown in the figure below.

So, in that case you will need to configure your system to use BitLocker with a TPM. Here is how you can do that.

Press [win + r] and type “gpedit.msc” in it and press enter to launch the Local Group Policy Editor

How to Speed up the Start up Process for Windows 7?

Microsoft Windows is undoubtedly the most popular ever operating system for desktop PCs. Though new Windows 8 is out since a year or so, there are plenty of people who still use Windows 7 OS. Electronics, Computing, Communication and Information technology are the fields that change rapidly over the span of time. User has just adjusted to a system and he/she will have a new update in the same segment. There are two aspects to this phenomenon and requires another post to give justice. If you are one of those users who still have Windows 7, you may have noted a fact that it takes a bit long to start up. Sometime it may irritate you. But nothing to worry, here we are once again to help you with proven tricks along with screenshots.

I personally believe that Windows is a system that has plenty of hidden features may be due to the reason that Microsoft provides higher privilege to their users as compared to other Operating system developers. So using those hidden tricks here we are with a tutorial How to Speed up the Start up process for windows 7? Tired of using Windows 7? Upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 8 using the Dual-boot method.

Procedure:

Caution:

If you are editing registry don’t mistype anything, otherwise, it may cost you in form of crashed window. So perform this operation with optimum concentration and confidence too!

After that you will find a box titled Run, and space with a writing curser

Type “Regedit” or “Regedit.exe”

Click Ok or Press Enter

A window titled User Account Control (UAC) will appear. Click yes on this window.

Now you will find a registry window.

On the left side of the Window, locate the key “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSessionManagerMemoryManagement PrefetchParameters.”

In the right pane, double-click EnablePrefetcher.

Change the value to 2 and click Ok.

In the right pane, double-click EnableSuperfetch,

Change the value to 2 and click Ok.

After done with all these settings close the Registry.

Restart your system in order to configure the changes.

So here you are with your Windows 7 which really start up faster. Feel free to suggest us or review our tutorial. We are open enough to criticism also. If you don’t know how to boot the computer in Safe mode, you should see that.